Environment
03:25pm Mon 10 Jan, 2011
The Otanewainuku Kiwi Trust is expecting this month to see the first hatching of kokako chicks since the early 1980s in the Otanewainuku forest. Moana Hodge releasing... Read More
02:05pm Mon 10 Jan, 2011
Surfers are invited to workshops in Mount Maunganui and Whakatane this week to talk about their favourite surf breaks and what makes them important. Surfers at Mount... Read More
11:04am Fri 07 Jan, 2011
Tauranga City Council staff are trying to find out why bacterial levels are failing to fall after two separate sewer leaks about the city. A fat blockage caused... Read More
09:23am Thu 06 Jan, 2011
Mechanical mangrove mulching resumes around the Tauranga harbour this month after taking a five month break for the bird nesting season. Mulching is scheduled to... Read More
10:41am Thu 23 Dec, 2010
Costs for the Bay of Plenty Regional Council to repair flood damage to river scheme works from the August floods earlier this year will be more than $3 million. Scenes... Read More
09:31am Mon 20 Dec, 2010
Bay of Plenty Regional Council and Gisborne District Council are looking to their surfing communities to help in a study of the regions' surf breaks. The councils... Read More
10:21am Mon 13 Dec, 2010
The Department of Conservation is urging people not to intervene and aid blue penguins stranded ashore on Bay of Plenty beaches. A little blue penguin on Mauao.... Read More
07:28am Sun 12 Dec, 2010
The Chatham Island forget-me-not has won a competition by beating back deadly nettle in a fortnight to become New Zealand's preferred plant of 2010.The Chatham... Read More
10:00am Fri 03 Dec, 2010
Comvita's Birds, Bees, Kids and Trees environmental programme celebrates its fifth year this week. The occasion was marked on Tuesday when two school groups took... Read More
03:32pm Wed 01 Dec, 2010
The Tauranga based Paper4Trees programme is being extended to more North Island schools with help from the government's Waste Minimisation Fund. Tauranga MP Simon... Read More
08:02am Sun 28 Nov, 2010
The early signs are indicating there will be a bumper sea lettuce ‘crop' collected from Tauranga beaches this summer. Fresh sea lettuce is nutrient rich. Photo... Read More
07:50am Sun 28 Nov, 2010
One of the largest aerial mapping programmes in the country will get under way in the Bay of Plenty this summer.An aerial photo of Tauranga.BOPLASS Ltd, the Bay... Read More
08-Nov 07:00
From five-year-olds to teachers
07-Nov 19:02
Results show no change for Bay electorates
07-Nov 18:08
Coroner unable to find cause of infant’s death
07-Nov 16:00
Hot rods rev up for animal charity
07-Nov 12:00
Young actors debut on public stage
07-Nov 11:45
Check labels if you want NZ ham for Christmas
07-Nov 07:00
Yellow-belt siblings sweep national golds
06-Nov 18:00
Wairoa Bridge cycleway fully closes from Monday
06-Nov 17:00
Two-way traffic returns past gorge's biggest slips
06-Nov 16:00
Weekend events postponed due to rain
06-Nov 14:00
More than 10,000 people expected at Sika Show
06-Nov 12:10
Bay of Plenty on alert for severe thunderstorms
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